Spring is sprung. Daffodils are in their full glory, blossoms are on the fruit trees, and if you planned ahead, starts are being hardened off, getting ready to be planted out into beds. The growing season

If you’ve only eaten potatoes from the market, you’re missing out on a lot of fresh flavor. Home-grown potatoes are incredibly tasty, easy to grow, and honestly, there’s nothing quite like the feeling

A big thank you to @salty-mcgriddles for checking my exif data and finding that it was missing! I had no idea. Apparently I had a box checked on Photoshop's "save for web" dialogue that didn't

Wetlands are remarkably important for a number of reasons: they recharge groundwater supplies; trap floodwaters; and contain a disproportionately high number of animal and plant species when compared to

With the end of March comes potato planting season in the Pacific Northwest (Cascadia). You can plant these delectable tubers from now until May for an August or September harvest, and that means not only

Some gardeners like to believe that there’s no way to avoid transplant shock. Even worse, some even believe that transplant shock doesn’t matter—that it’s just a normal, unavoidable course of events that

It's planting time for us! Its zone 7 here and guided by a handy schedule from a local seed breeder we got organized on what to start early in the greenhouse. Coming from zone 6 where the ground was still

Fresh peas are some of the tastiest treats the garden has to offer, and now is traditionally the time to plant them. In fact, if you live in the Northwest US (Cascadia), the saying is “Peas by Presidents

For the gardener who’s been eagerly waiting for Spring, the fickle weather of late February and March can really play with the emotions. One day (or even week) it will be so sunny we can’t imagine not

One year, after leaving Joshua Tree National Park, I was hitching back north in the dark. It was a back road in the middle of nowhere, and the only thing that kept me from getting hit by the cars was my

(Posting this again for Blue Friday--and since so few people saw it the first time around.) Never fear, for there is beauty in the midst of darkness, and the light always returns. Now, in the time of spring,

Usually when hitchhiking down the California coast I want to stay near the water. But this time my driver and I got a little lost taking side roads and we ended up a bit inland during the blue hour. At

While it's sometimes easier to stay on the periphery, there is often a wild madness of symmetry at the heart of things.

Pollen is one of the tiny things that makes terrestrial life on Earth possible...well, at least life as we know it. The flower below is more than ready for its winged visitors, many of whom love to gather

At the far north-western tip of Oregon lies this quaint little town called Astoria. This building seems to have been there forever, but I have no idea what it was used for. Any ideas?

To be part of a winter wildlife tracking program in Washington state (to help make wildlife corridors), we first needed to get trained in tracking. This was one of the meeting spaces. Whatdya think? Your

Within each one of us lies the darkness, but don't flee from it--dance with it! (My kitten Darius looking all predatory.)

Without mystery, our lives would be dull indeed. Never let yourself be dissuaded by the darkness--it can lead to magical, mystical places. Taken in the Olympic National Park.

If you ever need to get picked up by the Andromedans, Orions, or other nebula folk, this is the kind of place they like to visit. [Taken in the Joshua Tree National Park]

For a while I was either hitching or driving Highway 101 on the Olympic every month. Once in a while I caught the light at the right time. This was taken in multiple exposures and processed in Aurora HDR.